Most back Keystone XL pipeline, poll says

Apr. 4, 2013

Written by

Wendy Koch
USA Today

As President Obama nears a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, a poll Tuesday finds two thirds of Americans support the Canada-to-U.S.project. The numbers come amid continuing efforts to clean up a major new oil spill in Arkansas and lingering problems from the 2010 BP blowout on the Gulf Coast.

In the Pew Research Center survey, 66 percent say they favor the pipeline, which would carry heavy crude or tar sands from Canada through the Midwest to Texas refineries, and 22 percent oppose it, according to the poll of 1,501 adults taken March 13-17.